warg

See also: Warg

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Norse vargr (“wolf”), reintroduced by J. R. R. Tolkien; compare also Old English wearg.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑːɡ/, /ˈwɔːɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwoɹɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɡ, -ɔːɡ

Noun

warg (plural wargs)

1. (fantasy, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf. [from 20th c.]
   • 1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966 (August 1967 printing), →OCLC, page 105:

     But even the wild Wargs (for so the evil wolves over the Edge of the Wild were named) cannot climb trees. […] Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together, and their dreadful clamour almost made the hobbit fall out of his pine-tree.

   • 1993, jbatka, “Multiple colors for PC compatible”, in rec.hack (Usenet):

     My question is do all of the executable versions for PC compatibles have the color option enabled? If so, what am I missing to not get say yellow for a hill orc, grey for a goblin, white for my pet, red for a wolf, brown for a warg, etc?

   • 1999, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 462:

     He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs.

   • 2007, Stephen O. Glosecki, Myth in Northwest Europe:

     The monsters are identified not as trolls, a word apparently not available in English at the time, but (among other things) as wargs, whatever that means; Grendel is called a heoro-wearh at line 1267 and his mother a grund-wyrgen at line 1518.

See also

• dire wolf

Anagrams

• GAWR, Garw

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse vargr, from Proto-Germanic *wargaz, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ-.

Noun

warg m

1. wolf

Declension

Declension of warg

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	warg	wargen	warger	wargär
accusative	warg	wardjin	warga	wargą
dative	wardje	wardjem	wargum	wargum(e)
genitive	—	—	—	—

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vark/
• Rhymes: -ark
• Syllabification: warg
• Homophone: wark

Noun

warg f

1. genitive plural of warga